Perhaps the largest particular bee in Cherry's bonnet, especially now that he doesn't have Ron Wilson to kick around anymore, concerns the Maple Leafs' treatment of once prized prospect Nazem Kadri. Today Cherry took to Twitter and lambasted the original six club over "fitness-gate" and the clubs continued mistreatment of Kadri.

Read on past the jump.

Here's the rant in full (the embedded tweet that leads off this post was actually the poetic conclusion of Cherry's rant):

I have never in my life seen a kid treated like Nazem Kadri by the Leafs. It started in his first training camp where he led the team in..

We're left to wonder while looking over the Maple Leafs news from the past couple of weeks, if maybe Cherry wasn't even talking about Kadri when he suggested that the Maple Leafs have a perfect, "blue print on how to destroy someone." Perhaps he was talking about Brian Burke's reputation.

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Matt I think it is obvious that its more about Cherry ripping into Burke than him promoting Kadri.

I don't know.. GM's and coaches speak publicly all the time about young players needing to improve defensively and/or work on nutrition. Why is it considered sacrilege when it comes to Kadri? Because he happens to play in Toronto?

Afterall.. it was the Sun that called Kadri "fatso" and "chubby" - not the Leafs.

You can criticize them for their ineptitude with some roster moves.. and for their inability to make the playoffs for the better part of a decade... but this?

To me.. if you're a professional athlete and you come into camp out of shape (the one thing you have 100% control over)... that IS "unacceptable".

...and most especially if you've been doing interviews with these same Toronto rags proclaiming how "lean" you are.